NEW: Months before the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund was announced, Ed Martin predicted Capitol rioters would get millions, even if it took until 2028, two people told NBC News.

Tonight #WETAClassical's #ChoralShowcase explores the #America250 theme through works that draw together American composers and poets: Price's Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, Hutter's Three American Madrigals, and Thompson's Frostiana. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

Tonight’s Choral Showcase on #WETAClassical is in #America250 mode with works from three U.S.-born composers. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT to hear Leonard Bernstein’s Missa Brevis, Alan Hovhaness’ Simple Mass, and Libby Larsen’s Missa Gaia: Mass for the Earth. 🌎 #ChoralMusic

@clfametrodc.bsky.social, who's going to be watching Suffs on Great Performances PBS this evening? #Suffs #PBS #GreatPerformancesPBS www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/s...

Who's going to be watching Suffs on Great Performances PBS this evening? #Suffs #PBS #GreatPerformancesPBS www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/s...

In celebration of #America250, #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical will focus on works by American composers, including the oratorio Toward a Season of Peace by Richard Danielpour, who was born in New York to Iranian parents. Tune in or stream starting at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...

Nick also broke the news that the brothers were returned home today. A few hours later, the New York Times and Washington Post reported the same thing, once again, neither credited him. I don't understand why it's so hard for big national papers to credit smaller local pubs. Nick's latest:

New York Times: If you're gonna crib our headline, you could at least credit Nick Judin and the Mississippi Free Press for first reporting it 2 days earlier. I'm glad this story is getting national attention. But Nick puts a lot of himself in these stories, and deserves credit (just as we'd do).

A nod to May Day, a celebration of Spring and cultural festivities like the May Pole, this morning on WETA Classical, including Classical Sunrise 6:12am; part of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony 6:18am; Schumann's 1st Violin Sonata 7:41am; and Fauré's 1st Piano Trio 8:48am. Enjoy it with us.

On #WETAClassical's #ChoralShowcase this evening: Dame Ethel Smyth's The Prison (Symphony for Soprano, Bass-Baritone, Chorus, and Orchestra, with a text from H.B. Brewster. A dialogue between a man and his soul. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. #WomenComposers #EthelSmyth weta.org/fm/features/...

lol

The WHCD shooter will be used to justify things that have nothing to do with the WHCD shooter. Mark this moment.

Also, its kinda disheartening to see so many "journalists" that used to be "trusted news sources" at the correspondents dinner celebrating a 1st amendment that this administration is clearly suppressing and opposing. I've been 3 times and the best part about it is the after parties anyway. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Hearing the head of the WHCA—who just days ago participated in a Paramount dinner “honoring” Trump— say tonight that the First Amendment is “fragile” because of a random shooter rather than because of the president sitting next to her on the podium is, I guess, exactly as pathetic as you’d expect.

Well-said. He’s trying to shift the burden to us more directly. Why does a president need to have sit down dinners for thousands? It’s not his money he’s showing off. It’s ours. We want healthcare.

Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

The President calls every black person he doesn’t like “low IQ” and the media believes it absolutely critical we draw no conclusions from that

I can't let noon arrive without mentioning that WETA, my local classical music 🎶 station, has been conducting its spring fundraising drive. Thanks to streaming, their programming is available around the planet. Please consider joining supporters this season! weta.org/fm

“O believe, my heart, o believe: Nothing is lost to you!” Tonight on Choral Showcase, WETA Classical’s Bill Bukowski shares Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection.” Ivan Fischer conducts the Hungarian Radio Choir and Budapest Festival Orchestra. Tune in/stream at 9 p.m. weta.org/fm/features/...

@clfametrodc.bsky.social, cat-themed goodies at the @folger.edu gift shop. #NationalCatLadyDay #Shakespeare

@clfametrodc.bsky.social, happy National Cat Lady Day!

Grill, baby, grill. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Tonight’s #ChoralShowcase on #WETAClassical features music in remembrance of the young people of Terezin (Theresienstadt): I Never Saw Another Butterfly by cantor and composer Charles Davidson (1929–2023) and Vedem by Lori Laitman (1955– ). Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...

I’m glad there is a reported ceasefire deal with Iran. But we shouldn’t be in this illegal war in the first place. And Donald Trump can’t simply threaten war crimes with impunity. Congress needs to get back in session now to stop this war and remove Donald Trump.

Sen. Chris Murphy and Ted Lieu have both reminded members of the military chain of command that they're legally obligated to refuse to follow illegal orders. That's really good and important.

much better than the last one

Speaking of stains … always keep this in mind ↘️

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

An average parent in America or anywhere around the world don’t allow our kid to talk like this. The man is unwell, unhinged and desperate. And the reporters and media outlets omitting this basic dynamic are recklessly neglecting the fundamental duties of supposed fourth estate.

One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!

I mean, you don't really need a translator

Shortly after Rev. Paul Joseph Keller, two fellow Catholic priests and a nun were ushered into the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago on Thursday, a guard escorted 5 immigrant detainees to a space on the other side of a half-door. All were bound with shackles. religionnews.com/2026/04/03/a...

Again, just because Trump & the far right authoritarian party do not believe that the law, Constitution, or our signed & ratified international treaties are binding on them does not obligate the media to also act as if these things are true. The latter is a choice. Other choices remain available.

More than a month into the war in Iran, major media outlets are still erasing the fact that the war violates both the Constitution & the UN Charter, while casually calling it a “war” in the headlines.

Stephen Miller: “Trump = peace.” Tulsi Gabbard: “A vote for Donald Trump is a vote to end wars, not start them.” JD Vance: “Trump's best foreign policy? Not starting any wars.” Donald Trump: "My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier." Liars.

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It's #PalmSunday and also the final Sunday in #WomensHistoryMonth. #WETAClassical's Choral Showcase will be featuring a work by Margaret Bonds, Simon Bore the Cross, and Christ on the Mount of Olives by Ludwig van Beethoven. Tune in/stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...

New from me: I try to avoid calling the immigration system “Kafkaesque”: it’s overused, so doesn’t illuminate much. But the rise of pretermission — simply closing asylum-seekers’ cases and ordering them deported instead of hearing their claims — fits the bill. documentedny.com/2026/03/27/t...

@clfametrodc.bsky.social, as everybody gets ready for #NoKings this weekend, it’s an excellent time to read, review, and share On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. Here’s actor John Lithgow reading just the list of lessons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5...

@catladies4america.bsky.social, as everybody gets ready for #NoKings this weekend, it’s an excellent time to read, review, and share On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder. Here’s actor John Lithgow reading just the list of lessons. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5...

A bit late to the party here, but I did want to acknowledge Gloria Steinem's 92nd birthday on March 25. At whatever age you are and in whatever way you can, light your torch and raise it aloft.

This is what Idi Amin’s government did to Ugandan Asians applying for passports in the period preceding the expulsion. Amin then argued that they deserved to be expelled because so few had taken up Ugandan citizenship.

I'm delighted to report that tonight's Choral Showcase on #WETAClassical will feature women composers, including Florence Price (Song of Hope), and female artists generally. There's also a musical surprise, and not the Haydn kind, either. Tune in or stream at 9 p.m. EDT. weta.org/fm/features/...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, good people. ☘️ 🎻 🐇 🐐 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAEB...

It would have ended like 43 Presidencies. This one quote.

There's music from women composers and from ensembles in the Baltic nations on tonight's Choral Showcase on @WETAClassical. The program started at 9 p.m. EDT. #BalticVoices #WomenComposers #WomensHistoryMonth weta.org/fm/features/...

@clfametrodc.bsky.social, the mood as we peruse the Sunday headlines. #ClawsOut

@catladies4america.bsky.social, the mood as we look at the Sunday headlines. #ClawsOut